Final Presidentional debate LIVE thread...

[Kyle Ricky]

Tomorrow night (Monday 10/22/12) at 9:00 PM is the final Presidential debate. We will be posting live in this thread during it..

As a starter: This debate is on foreign policy. With how obama's foreign track record is, Romney has this in the bag. obama is the worst President on foreign policies since Jimmy Carter.

Note: I will be posting the video in the debate re-watch thread when it is done so those who missed it can see it. Or even if those who want to re-watch it can.

[franksolich]

Thanks for starting this.

The debate starts at 8:00 p.m. central time Monday evening.

You know, I always resented that "prime time" in the eastern time zone doesn't start until 9:00 p.m. there, making it 8:00 p.m. in the vast middle of the United States.  It's an hour too late, and one can't stay awake.  "Prime time" should ideally start at 7:00 p.m. central time.

It freaked me that, when living in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, Dan Rather came on at 6:30 p.m., after supper, rather than 5:30 p.m., before supper.  The evening news is a "before supper" thing, not an "after supper" thing.

And the local nightly news at.....11:00 p.m.?  Geezuz.

Night is for sleeping, not watching television.

For whatever that's worth.....

[Kyle Ricky]

I was in Chicago for a week and the hour early for the tv shows drove me nuts. Well, that and the hour different time zone in a whole. My OCD wouldn't let me handle it properly. I have a relative who lives on the time line in Tennessee. His house is Eastern time, and where he works, less than ten miles away, is an central time. Talk about messing you up.

[Chris_]

I have a relative who lives on the time line in Tennessee. His house is Eastern time, and where he works, less than ten miles away, is an central time. Talk about messing you up.

That would definitely suck.  The corporate office at my current job is in the Eastern time zone, so I get to watch everyone log out of their computers by 4pm and I'm still stuck at work for another hour.

[Kyle Ricky]

That would definitely suck.  The corporate office at my current job is in the Eastern time zone, so I get to watch everyone log out of their computers by 4pm and I'm still stuck at work for another hour.

I think that would be pretty bad also.

[Chris_]

The moderator is Bob Schieffer.  Yay.

[Chris_]

I think that would be pretty bad also.

It's not too bad.  My closest coworker is 90 miles away. 

[seahorse513]

I'll be working....waaaaah I so wanted to see Romney kick Obama's butt. Would someone be willing to text me for the highlights??

[Chris_]

I hope Bob remembers to take a nap that day.

[Kyle Ricky]

I'll be working....waaaaah I so wanted to see Romney kick Obama's butt. Would someone be willing to text me for the highlights??

I will be posting the Video so you can see it.

[seahorse513]

I will be posting the Video so you can see it.

I know, it is not the same, but thankyou anyway...

[franksolich]

Okay, my usual and standard caution here.

Things have been going good, really good, for Mitt Romney since he got the Republican nomination.

There hasn't been a bump in the road.

But there's still 15 days before the elections, and anything can happen.

If and when it does, just keep your heads; bumps on the road to winning are a fact of life.

If something one doesn't want to happen, happens, just accept, adapt, and move on.

Persistence, tenacity, constantly plugging away, wins. 

[seahorse513]

I will be able to see the debate after all!!!

[Kyle Ricky]

I will be able to see the debate after all!!!

WooooHooooo!!!!  The is less than 11 hours left. Bring it on Barry, bring it on..

[Kyle Ricky]

7 hours to go. Romney has been blasting out foreign policy posts on facebook left and right. He is on fire! I hope it spills over to tonight ...

Here is one of the previous posts about tonight

President Mitt Romney 2012

Well, the final Presidential debate will be over in the next several hours.

I’m sensing a certain level of stress among some Romney supporters in the lead up to this debate. Sure, it’s human nature to feel anxious just before a big event … especially when we are so invested in Mitt’s success. But I’m not nervous one bit, and here’s why ….

Governor (soon to be “President Elect”) Romney has much more to gain than to lose in this debate. It’s Obama that has the tough job tonight. The non-incumbent challenger generally has a low-bar to clear in these debates. They only have to 1) show that they can credibly be Commander-in-Chief and 2) avoid major gaffes. Mitt has shown that he is more than capable of achieving this based on his first two debate showings.

Much of the “who won the debate?” game is about expectations. Obama was widely expected to be a superior debater/communicator, and it was a race-changing event when he lost the first debate so dramatically. This set up debate number two, where Obama had reset his bar down to the floor. As such, many observers felt that he “won” the second debate (by a much narrower margin than the 1st debate, and more on style than on actual issues according to polls). But the President’s “win” was really more of a “most improved” award … we’ve seen no bounce in the polls for him at all.

Conventional wisdom is that Obama is supposed to trounce Governor Romney tonight, since the topic is Foreign Policy. The problem for Obama, is that his supposed foreign policy superiority is already “baked into the cake” of his poll numbers/support. Obama’s problem arises from the fact that his foreign policy successes begin and end with “Bin Laden is dead.” Sure, that’s a HUGE point, but it’s sort of hard to talk about THAT for 90 minutes straight. And no voter is going to change his mind to vote for Obama on this issue. “Hey yeah, Obama got Bin Laden … I had forgotten that. I guess I’ll vote for him now.”

Even those formerly on Obama’s foreign policy team decidedly do NOT see this as a strength for him (be sure to read that scathing rebuke!).

The debate will give Mitt an opportunity to, once again, unexpectedly impress voters on the depth and breadth of his international experience and knowledge. The media have painted him as a lightweight on foreign policy, someone out of his depth. Mitt can and will highlight his substantial foreign exposure through his public, private, and religious experiences.

The wildcard issue for tonight is Banghazi … and not in a good way for Obama.

[Kyle Ricky]

Less than 4 hours to go ...

[seahorse513]

I am here!!!

[Kyle Ricky]

1 1/2 hours to go ...   

[Flufferlie]

Going to watch it on Fox. Excited yet a tad nnervous. 

[Mr Mannn]

Any links to live streaming? Don't see one on briebart...

Here's one...
http://www.youtube.com/politics?feature=inp-lt-ype-109
Warning, Rachel Madcow is commenter on this channel..

[Chris_]

C-SPAN does live streaming (no commercials)

[Mr Mannn]

http://live.foxnews.com/
Support the hometown favorite. Streaming starts at 7:45 central time

[Chris_]

Look at ol' Bob sitting up there by himself. 

[Kyle Ricky]

It is getting ready to start. Bill O'reilley said that if Romney comes out of this the winner, he will be the next President of the United States. I hope he crumbles obama.

[franksolich]

What color ties are they wearing?

And are they standing or sitting?